Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:58:59 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away. |
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Marc Ballarin wrote:
> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:37:07 +0200 > From: Marc Ballarin <Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de> > To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> > Cc: davem@davemloft.net, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, torvalds@osdl.org, > netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away. > > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:16:08 +0200 > Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote: > > > Fixed by this patch. > > Yes, works fine. Does this mean that ipchains was broken for a while, but > no one complained? > > Anyway, here is another trivial patch against -bk7 that adds runtime > warnings. IMO most users are going to miss compile time warnings, or > won't even compile kernels themselves. >
I like having runtime info as well as a compile time warning, but maybe the message should mention that iptables is staying and people should migrate??
> + printk(KERN_WARNING > + "Warning: ipchains is obsolete, and will be removed soon!\n"); > +
Perhaps something like this instead:
"Warning: ipchains is obsolete, and will be removed soon. Please migrate to iptables."
-- Jesper Juhl
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